Saturday, November 10, 2018

Older Dutch Man Identifies As Younger Dutch Man

Emile
Ratelband is 69 years of age, but he identifies
as a 49-year-old. Yet, intolerant and bigoted local authorities flatly refused
to amend his age on official documents, so Mr. Ratelband, a pensioner, is suing
them. The case has now gone to a court in the Dutch city of Arnhmen.

Ratelband
says he is routinely discriminated against because of his age, and encounters
problems in society on a daily basis. He is an entrepreneur and self-help
expert who, though born on March 11, 1949, says he feels at least 20 years younger, and therefore requested that his
birth date be changed to March 11, 1969. He says he wants to go back to work and have a better chance with women on
Tinder.

Ratelband
stated: “When I’m on Tinder and it says I’m 69, I don’t get an answer. When I’m
49, with the face I have, I will be in a luxurious position. He added,
“Transgenders can now have their gender changed on their birth certificates,
and in the same spirit there should be room for an age change.”

The
court is due to deliver a written ruling within four weeks.

I say
more power to him. Ageism is a particularly pernicious form of bigotry in
Western nations today, one that sentences those to whom society arbitrarily
assigned a birthdate at birth to an unending succession of offenses big and
small. If one is held to be “too young,” one can’t purchase cigarettes or
liquor, drive a motor vehicle or even frequent a brothel. On the other hand, if
a person is viewed as “too old,” he or she will be prevented from legally
having sex with those under 16, likely find it hard to successfully seek
gainful employment, and probably be discouraged from driving a motor vehicle,
especially after imbibing large quantities of liquor and leaving a brothel.
They may even, at some point, be expected to die! One would think progressive
politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be laser-focused on addressing
obvious discrimination, inequality and marginalization such as this, but one
would be wrong.

When
will the “woke” truly wake up and
smell the (Starbucks) coffee? Anyone can be anything they want. Society
considers me to be “married,” but I often identify as single in bars after
midnight. If I identify as a toddler, Maori tribesman, transgendered mulatto
bisexual, elder statesman, deity, Maxine Waters, or a toaster oven, who the
hell is anybody else to judge?

It’s a
brave new world. Inhabited by people deathly afraid……of the truth.

Daily Trivia Quiz Answer

Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).

Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?

A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"

An Ode To Life

Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.

And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.

Fireworks of the Mind

Write It Up

Whence Shall Come Another?

True Then, True Now

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

Time Well Wasted

The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays